Legal Opinion
Hardway v. Cent. Intelligence Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 28, 2019No. Civil Action No. 17-1433 (TJK)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMOTHY J. KELLY, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez, and G. Robert Blakey worked for a congressional committee in the 1970s that investigated the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. They suspected that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was interfering with their investigation and spying on them. About forty years later, they sought to confirm those suspicions by requesting records from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Dissatisfied with the CIA's response, they sued, challenging the adequacy of the…
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